The United Kingdom embassy of Israel aptly describes the ambitions of Israel with its diplomatic missions to the western countries. This Embassy is located at 2nd Palace Green but the gate to the consulate is at Fifteenth, Old court place in Kensington and Chelsea region of London. It is only consulate of Israel located in United Kingdom. The Embassy and consulate are both situated in this building. The embassy and consulate both have different entrances. This building was built for Mr. William Thackeray in mid eighteenth century. However, now it serves as Israel Embassy in United Kingdom.

Rebuilding and Rededication

Ron Prosor, the Ambassador of Israel had announced that this embassy would be rededicated. This announcement came on Fifteenth march of 2010 after a long renovation and restoration program for the embassy. Many changes has been made in the building of Thackeray house during this refurbishment and now the Music room in the old building will be renamed after a former ambassador. The decision had been taken in a meeting of Embassy officials and they concluded to change the name as Shlomo Argov who was also an ambassador in to UK.

Foreign Relation

Any kind of diplomatic, economical or cultural tie up between Israel and any other country refers to the diplomatic missions run by Israel in different countries. After the formation of United Nations Israel became a separate state in 1948 and it joint United Nations in 1949 with the consideration to get good results from diplomatic tie-ups with different countries under the United Nations. This country now has diplomatic and cultural ties with more than a hundred and fifty countries. Israel has opened its borders for neighboring Arabian countries, Egypt and Jordan. This happened after the peace treaties of 1979 for Egypt and 1994 for Jordan.

Israel has also been involved in providing aids on humanitarian grounds to the developing nations, which are affected by natural hazards, like Haiti, Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Israel has been a close friend with United States of America and most of its foreign policies can be seen standing under the shades of United States’ diplomatic interests. Since the times of famous Iranian Revolution, even after getting free as a separate state, Israel has maintained its relations with Iran. Iran recognized Israel as a sovereign country and was second Muslim nation to do so after Turkey. Israel also helped many African countries by running several educational and aid programs. Israel sent experts of health care and management to these countries. Israel has been isolated from the countries where rise of Muslim Brotherhood was taking place. During this time, Israel invested time in enhancing relations with India, china and other Asian countries.